Microsoft looks to bring Office 365 and Windows 10 much closer together

New 'Office Hub' is on the cards for Windows

Microsoft has plans to bring Office 365 and Windows 10 much closer together by introducing an 'Office Hub' to the operating system.

At least that's the current thinking at Redmond according to Windows Central, although this concept is still in the very early planning stages, so could well change going forward.

But it certainly makes sense to more tightly integrate Office 365, and this potential Office Hub would ensure you have quick and easy access to all your documents, spreadsheets, emails and so forth from within Windows. The idea is that the hub will also highlight things such as when colleagues are working on shared documents in OneDrive.

Where would such a hub live? The vague ideas at the moment – and we must stress again that these are early concepts – are to either place it in the Action Center, or tie it into Cortana's hamburger menu.

Possible timeframe

Ideas are being played with at Redmond right now, but it's unclear how far down the line this hub might be, and whether it's something we could expect to see in the next major Windows 10 update – that would be Redstone 2 which is due to land early next year.

Microsoft also has further plans to deepen Office integration into Windows search, allowing users to search for terms such as 'all emails from this week', and have the OS pull out all of said messages.